ShortCircuit

(I've said this before) This drama makes me yearn for Iwaki again, dammit. That manga needs a drama, where is it... (and cast Boom in it, LOL) :(

So... this year's fad is HS heroes fighting bullies (basically kids smashing each other's faces). Okay then.

.... Soooo, kind of like the drama version of Officer Black Belt then?

IDC, I'll take it if it's good.

Kim JaeWook is aging backwards, LOL. It's been so long since Antique Bakery and he still has it :D

The sets look amazing, hopefully they put as much attention to detail into the script, too.

Except for WLGYT, all the other winners aren't that highly rated on MDL. I wonder why.

Anyway, even if he didn't win, Moon WooJin still was nominated - he's amazing and he's still just 16. This kid is really going places.

I admitted before that English is not my first language, but this is what the article (TLed) says: "On the 29th, Lee Seung-gi announced, "My father-in-law was sentenced to a fine, but recently he has been indicted again for similar illegal acts"

He WAS sentenced (to a fine, the prison term was revoked, so that's it, but the sentence is not that he's acquitted), and now he did it AGAIN.

'In 2018, Lee Hong Heon was sentenced to four years in prison and fined 2.5 billion won (approximately $1,735,600), but was acquitted on appeal the following year. However, in June of last year, the Supreme Court overturned the acquittal and sent the case back for retrial, ruling that he was guilty. " So, not acquitted after all - and this was for the COREBEAT scam. Source: https://www.soompi.com/article/1740265wpp/lee-seung-gi-cuts-off-ties-with-with-his-in-laws

And THEN, "On the morning of April 29, it was reported that Lee Hong Heon was arrested on charges of being involved in stock price manipulation related to the renewable energy company Quantapia."

His FIL is a scammer and having the prison term revoked taught him nothing. He was finally convicted last year, and now he did it again, less than a year later. The time to cut him loose was last year.

Other than that, TBH, I don't care. I just wanted to set some things straight re: your comment. Have a nice day.

Okay, I definitely KNOW this is based on another manga, and not even the art is the same, but I keep seeing them as KatouxIwaki. Boom in particular looks perfect to play Iwaki, if it ever happens. That man is walking sensuality.

I KNOW how smol Gun is but it amazes me every time, LOL.

Anyway, we must protect Ozone at all costs.

(And I think this mysterious person might be another afflicted with the curse, not the prof.)

So wait, the FIL was trialed and found guilty of stock manipulation, sentenced too (even if the prison term was revoked). That's all done, right?

Then, this new indictment on yet another charge of stock manipulation is a different case?

What is that saying, a rose by any other name, wait, no, a leopard doesn't change his spots, wait... umm, something about feeling remorse for all the people he manipulated into losing their money or something. That man hasn't learned anything, his money saved him from prison and now he did the exact same thing again. If found guilty, I hope he doesn't escape prison this time.

As for LSG, I am sorry to say it - I think this does impact his career significantly. Yes he's staying by his woman, yes he's proving loyalty to her since he loves her... but the time to take some distance from his in-laws (or at least the FIL) was probably in 2024 when the Supreme Court upheld the original sentence.

For those saying cancel culture and that this isn't his own fault - I read about the wedding and his FIL's controversy (at the time he was only charged IIRC, they hadn't given him a sentence yet), and the names in the family (the wife, daughters and his own) would likely tint the trial in certain ways. As much as we'd like to pretend that justice is blind, in real life, people with money and relations get off easier than nobodies (proof here, the FIL avoided prison time). So now, sadly, his name is going to be linked to his scammer FIL's for quite a long time. Taking some distance (and proving it's not just PR) will probably save some of his career. But we'll see.

Ep8, around the 21-22 minutes mark.

I don't think there'll be a second season and it doesn't actually need it. The ending was perfect for the story. And yeah it's a choose your own ending, but he's strong, he'll survive this too. And the world is full of women, and also men, LOL (let him be inclusive of all :D)

I don't remember the exact ep, but it's after he remembers everything. So 8-10 or thereabouts.

It's shown in a flashback she tried to cut herself and was rescued or stopped, but still has scars from it, so he took her to a tattooist to cover it up with the flower bracelet tattoo. But she was too scared it would hurt (I know, LOL, but people can try it and still fear pain) so he volunteered to get tattooed first to show her it doesn't hurt. (Then he admitted it hurt like hell, LOL).

It is exactly that - mainly het rom taking most of the screen time, then some home life scenes, and last of all, the actual BL teen love. There are some sweet moments, but they're rare, far apart and also pretty bland.

If this was filmed in 2022, as they say, Ahn JiHo was barely 18 (and IIRC, they still counted one less year for his age then, as they used to and now changed to a "normal" age counting). I think one could have expected no kiss scene.

But that's not the point - this is a drama called HEESU in Class 2, and we spent more than half with a hetero bland romance and I don't even know how many pointless tennis scenes that lead nowhere, instead of the main character. I think even more domestic scenes with the sisters would have had more impact than one scene where Chan Young is kicking a tennis ball around YET AGAIN.

So yeah if they wanted a straight+some BL one the side teen romance, they could have just used another title and not bait-and-switched the people who came to watch a teen BL story.

That even after he lectured him (HeeSu) on being a bad friend because he doesn't open up or share everything in his life with Chan Young. Like... what can you even say to that reaction?!

They barely held hands, no kiss (obviously), way too much hetrom still, two botched / awkward confessions... And Chan Young's initial reaction (too much focus on that character), that showed he's still a sh!tty friend.

Anyway. Eyecandy. That was all.

Yup, it went kind of like I imagined it would. So it ends. Oh well.

IMHO the book is more brutal than this - even if there is more of a warfare type of story and not just fistfights. And TBH a lot more heartbreaking (then again, it's a book and it takes time to develop characters so the reader gets invested in their story, where this S2 actually didn't.)

But the final feeling - the whole strife is so pointless in the end - is kind of the same.

Like seriously, so SeungWon will listen to HeeSu confess to Chan Young that he used to crush on him and very probably will walk away before HeeSu admits to who he likes now (if he even does). And then they'll probably cut to half hour of Chan Young winning some tennis match and/or Ji Yu winning some song contest etc and eventually remember this was supposed to be a BL and have the OTP confess in a roundabout way that they might be interested in each other.

And then hold hands - AT MOST. I predict there's not even a tentative of a kiss.

Oh well. At least there were some nice eyecandy actors - does anyone else think Lee SangYun kind of looks like Li YunRui? Because to me he kind of does.

2xed the hetrom and the tennis, but still they managed to leave it off for the last ep. When, because that's what they did so far, they'll focus on the hetrom even more. *sigh*